i'm malcolm webb it's very province in the democratic republic of congo tens of thousands of people here fled their homes since the beginning of the militia attack their villages did things like this. from the waves of the sales. to the contours of the east. hello and welcome to international weather forecasts much of europe continues to enjoy really fine weather at the moment far east different story low pressure circling round there pulling in colder air from the north but really for many western areas the sunshine much welcome temperatures really impressive at the moment getting up into the mid to high twenty's paris enjoying fantastic weather conditions the case making the most of it because once we get through to the early part of next week temperatures will be dropping back by more than ten degrees so as we look at the forecast twenty nine in paris still up at twenty five in london one or two spots maybe a degree or so higher than not and then as we head on through into the start of the weekend then things start to change so the risk of storms begins to develop across the u.k. and

december seventy thousand people have fled fighting in the east to camps in neighboring uganda well malcolm webb has retraced the refugees journey he's traveled from uganda's capital kampala to the most of the refugees. he then headed to. the shore of lake albert in the d. . see this is where many refugees take boats to escape to uganda and finally his visit bernie and a camp for people who fled the fighting and malcolm is joining us live from there now to tell us malcolm about where you are and the situation there. we're in a camp built on a on a muddy slope within the town of bunia very simple structures made of plastic sheets pulled over sticks it's raining now so you can only imagine what that means for the conditions of the people living here they've been here for about two months and they fled their villages a few kilometers up the road from here when militia came in fact people many people were killed many of them with machetes as a whole population fled so several thousand to living here in this camp but as you're just saying tens of thousands fled across lake albert over the border to n

to wait for somebody to help them put up shelter it might be safer here but they struggled over malcolm webb al-jazeera chiang wali refugee camp you come back. with about zero these are all top stories arrival proposals from the u.s. and russia to investigate chemical weapons attacks in syria have failed to paulson the u.n. security council by signs call for new inquiries but a u.s. plan to assign blame as are directed by moscow one of the most of the new rules you have already appointed the guilty party before the investigation you do not need the investigation you do not want to hear anything you do not want to hear that no traces of a chemical attack was found in duma you've simply been looking for a pretext all this time there were really only two key differences between our draft and russia's but those differences volumes first russia wanted to give themselves the chance to approve the investigators who were chosen for the task and second russia wanted to have the security council assess the findings of any investigation before any report was released does any of that sound independent

and since december alone while seventy thousand to fled east to camps in neighboring uganda as malcolm webb reports. it's taken days for cooma corinne and her children to get from her village in the democratic republic of congo to the safety of this refugee camp in uganda with two year old. anti septic sprays just too much. life in the camp begins with vaccines and a medical check. fled her village after her brother in law was killed by a militia with machetes. her husband patricia's father was left behind. when the fighting started we were very scared other people ran away but my husband wasn't around so i waited after everyone left i was alone i decided to run. as among thousands who fled to uganda since the beginning of this year most of them arrive here by boat on the shores of lake albert that borders the two countries the un registers them before taking them to the camps. retraced their journey across the lake. carrying already. showing. the u.n. says the people who took this journey are among millions of congolese in need of help displaced by multiple conflicts across the country he

congo has forced more than seventy thousand people to flee to neighboring uganda al jazeera as malcolm webb is retracing the journey of the refugees from uganda's capital kampala to the. refugee camp. and towards the sub i go to a landing that's where many of the refugees arrive by boat he sends us this report near the town of bunia where he accompanied the governor on a visits the areas affected by a snake violence. homes made of plastic sheets don't help much in the rain it's all people have in this camp for displaced people in the town of poignant in the democratic republic of congo they were attacked by militia who cut and killed people with machetes and burned houses the government says the situation is now under control. we joined the provincial governor on a visit to the conflict area. it's remote and with barely roads. he found small towns full of people who fled the countryside came to hear what the governor had to say. the governor saying there must be peace encouraging people to go home and saying the government will do all it can to provide security for the people here a skeptic

i'm malcolm webb and it's very province in the democratic republic of congo tens of thousands of people here since the beginning of the militia attacked their villages did things like this. cuba has any president to six decades of castro rule. on thursday since leaving eighty six year old raul castro last in america. reports from havana. a historic moment without the story shifts chapter but with a similar script. under-supply president raul castro passed on the baton to his chosen successor. clearly not be governing alone. or going to the generation off adel and raul remains intact comment army general role castro will remain the first secretary of the communist party and as such will lead the major decisions of our country now and in the future. he is canelo is a communist party cato cording to castro has passed all the tests of loyalty to the cuban revolution. but the real end of the castro era will take another three years from the safe it was probably when the eight party congress and the gradual and orderly transfer of our main responsibilities is made to the new generations it is

thousand and sixteen and no dates been set for elections which have rain repeatedly postponed malcolm webb is retracing the journey of the refugees from uganda's capital kampala the chiang wali refugee camp. all of these people ran for their lives. and now patients run again they're waiting for buses to take them to a place to make new homes in this refugee camp in uganda. rita liza's stories typical a few days ago a militia attacked her village in congo we killed her neighbors with machetes she fled with her five children she's pregnant with her six see if you go out the door . we saw the fighting had started then they started burning houses with people inside so we went into the forest and hid for three days then we decided to run so we came to uganda and the militias from the lendu ethnic group been attacking villages in breeches province called it to re since january the u.n. says that the cost more than seventy thousand to flee here you can and many more are displaced back at home people have lost their family ministers and women are subjected to a sexual in the gender of a space by a

only about a tenth of that number are displaced and insists it's not in control of the crisis malcolm webb accompanied the provincial governor on a visit to those affected areas. homes made of plastic sheets much in the rain. he people have in this camp with displaced people in the town in the democratic republic of congo they were attacked by militia who cuts and killed people with machetes burned houses. government says the situation is now under control. we joined the provincial governor on a visit to the conflict area. it's remote barely broke. we found small towns full of people who fled the countryside and came to hear what the governor had to say. the government is saying there must be peace encouraging people to go home and saying the government will do all it can provide security people here a skeptical about his message. each time we visit more displaced people they say it's not safe to go home. because they're all from the lendu ethnic group the victims are ethnic hammers and some lenders to two groups have been rivals in the past could most people here say there is no ethnic co

is according to the united nations most of the new arrivals have fled fighting in the province malcolm webb sent us this report from wiley refugee camp in uganda. who these people run for their lives. no patients. there waiting for buses to take them to a place to make new homes in this refugee camp in uganda. rita elisa's story typical a few days ago a militia attacked her village in congo and killed her neighbors with machetes she fled with her five children she was pregnant with her sick daughter the dog and we saw the fighting had started then they started burning houses with people inside so we went into the forest and hid for three days then we decided to run. we came to uganda. militias from the lendu ethnic group been attacking villages in breeches province called it to re since january the un says that supports more than seventy thousand to flee here uganda many more are displaced back at home people have lost their family ministers and women are subjected to sexual and gender based violence is for enduring. so they came very traumatised very tired in some needed very raw and they

democratic republic of congo to share their villages have been at the center of ethnic conflict malcolm webb traveled to the area and spoke to some of the displaced. rochelle good to see will never know her two older sisters militia killed them with machetes before cutting her we met her family in this camp for displaced people in bosnia in the democratic republic of congo they fled their village when the militia attacked who ran into more fighters down the road also cut off her sister's arm her father told us how his wife was killed. i was running behind my wife and children they grabbed me and started cutting with machetes then they caught my wife and started cutting her too she was pregnant and so they cut the baby from her stomach. many of the people in the camps tell similar stories of attacks by men from the lendu ethnic group we went to some of the villages day fled these are the remains of one family's home they fled when the attackers came from their possessions they left behind. set the house on fire they did the same in the house next door as well another family lived here and the

death others burned in their homes it will take a lot to convince people of thirty three year malcolm webb al-jazeera the province in the democratic republic of congo police in nigeria have fired tear gas at hundreds of shia muslim protesters in a budget it's the second day of rallies in the capital demonstrators are calling for the release of their religious leader. he's been jailed without charges since the september two thousand and fifteen. slovakia's national police chief says he's going to step down after weeks of public pressure over the murder of a journalist it's the third major resignation of top officials and politicians in slovakia after investigative reporter a young could see a canis fiance or shot dead in february on monday the interior minister said he was resigning and the former prime minister robert fico left office last month tens of thousands of people have been taking part in regular protests calling for an independent investigation into the shooting. two more cattle and politicians have appeared before a judge in the dritte to be formally charged with sedition and re

wait for somebody to help them put up a shelter it might be safer here for their struggle over malcolm webb al-jazeera chiang wali refugee camp uganda japan's foreign minister says his country will work closely with south korea to help denuclearize north korea tardo kano is in seoul for talks with south korea's foreign minister the first such meeting in two years and it comes ahead of a summit between north and south korea later this month hands prime minister shinzo of they will be meeting donald trump next week the u.s. president is expected to meet north korea's kim jong un in may or early june. facebook founder and chief executive mark zuckerberg has admitted making mistakes during a nearly five hour testimony before the u.s. congress he says he's sorry for the about the privacy data breach at the social media giant alan fischer reports from washington. ditching his favorite group two shirts for a suit this was a polish to facebook c.e.o. with a performance to match mark zuckerberg apologize for the massive data breach that impacted eighty seven million users worldwide eight we didn't t

we got in the world to come on this al-jazeera news hour including on malcolm webb the tory province in the democratic republic of congo tens of thousands of people here fled there since the beginning of the militia attack their villages did things like this will be speaking to some of the people that run away some of those that stayed behind. a warning from the i.m.f. about trade disputes between the u.s. and china and what they could mean for the global economy. and the turkish cup semifinal is abandoned jail we'll tell you why in school. and the sudanese president omar al bashir has fired his foreign minister after he spoke out about the government's failure to pay its diplomats ibraheem gondolas said embassy staff hadn't been paid for months and that sudan had fallen behind in paying rent for many of its diplomatic missions sudan is short of foreign currency and is facing an economic crisis the central bank has been full city valley the sudanese pound twice since january we can talk to joke jock who's executive director of the research organization known as the suit is situation

wait for somebody to help them put up shelter it might be safer here for their struggles over malcolm webb al-jazeera chiang wali refugee camp uganda. now the russian ambassador to lebanon has warned that any u.s. missiles fired into syria will be shot down now the envoy also suggested that launch sites could be targeted the u.s. and its allies are considering strikes in response to an apparent chemical attack near damascus on saturday which they blame on syria's government at least forty people were killed in the rebel held town of duma let's join our correspondent in moscow route chalons who's following events for us not the russians have never really hidden the fact that they will defend their ally come what may so this statement really should be no great surprise to us. that's true and basically this ambassador was directly referencing comments that were made by the russian chief of staff gerasim of nearly a month ago when the russians first started warning that they were picking up intelligence that's the united states was planning some kind of false flag operation using the rebels an

congo has forced more than seventy thousand people to flee to neighboring uganda al-jazeera as malcolm webb is retracing that journey traveling from uganda's capital kampala to the jungle ali refugee camp he then heads towards the landing site where many of the refugees arrived by boat he sent us this report from near the town of bunia where your company governor to areas affected by the violence. homes made of plastic sheet don't help much in the rain. it's all people have in this camp for displaced people in the town of poignant in the democratic republic of congo they were attacked by militia who cut and killed people with machetes and burned houses the government says the situation is now under control. we joined the provincial governor on a visit to the conflict area. it's remote it was barely roads. they found small towns full of people who fled the countryside came to hear what the governor had to say. the governor saying the must be peace encouraging people to go home and saying the government will do all it can to provide security for the people here a skeptical about his method. i

chronic poverty makes the crisis much worse malcolm webb al-jazeera you turi province in the democratic republic of congo a play about the toppling of zimbabwe's long serving president is taking center stage in harare the sas are openly ridicules robert mugabe and his wife something that would have been unthinkable during his thirty seven years in power how room a tussle reports one was. the production called operation reg a-c. begins with grace mccartney's the former first lady insisting she can do what ever she nice i. just wasn't. god was. in robert mugabe emerges accompanied by army generals who tell the ninety four year old and grace they are under house arrest. condition came to that i knew i was. the performer acting what happened on november fifteenth when soldiers and armored vehicles blocked roads to government offices parliament and the courts then president mugabe was confined to private residence. in the thousands demanding he step down eventually the man who had ruled zimbabwe for thirty seven years was forced to resign we was. read out to me i. now the mugabe is gone and

wait for somebody to help them put up shelter it might be safer here for their struggles over malcolm webb al-jazeera chiang wali refugee camp you can. well some of the political prisoners released on the order of sudan's president have been welcomed home by their families omar al bashir ordered the immediate release of all political prisoners on tuesday as part of national dialogue efforts security forces arrested hundreds of opposition leaders and protesters in january in an attempt to curb anti-government demonstrations. well demonstrators in the central african republic have laid some of the bodies of those killed in recent violence outside the u.n. mission building in the capital bangui at least twenty one people were killed during a un operation in a mainly muslim neighborhood mohamed atta reports. once again the people of central african republic a witness in renewed violence at the headquarters of the u.n. peacekeeping mission in the capital bangui hundreds of hundred demonstrators laid out the bodies of what list sixteen people they say they were killed in violence between armed g

al jazeera as malcolm webb is retracing the refugee journey from the end to the beginning he's traveled from uganda's capital kampala to the qiang gali refugee camp where most of them a sheltering and now he's crossing lake albert heading from the cast sandy landing site on the congolese side that's where refugees are trying to escape the fighting before getting on the water he sent us this update. i'm standing in uganda this is lake albert and on the far side you can just about see killed in the democratic republic of congo and it's after in those hills in recent months that militia have been attacking villages setting hearts on fire chopping people up with machetes killing some and that's what prompted thousands to get in boats across the lake we can see some of the kinds of boats here that they've been using these wooden ones have an engine strapped on the back that's a better way to cross but for people who can't afford a ticket in one of those they have to get in a canoe and paddled in which case the crossing can take one or two days lakes prone to bad weather strong winds heavy ra

is demanding action to and hold the union calls on unemployment poverty and inequality crisis malcolm webb is in johannesburg malcolm over to you. thousands of. disney speeches go to the moment the plan is all these people to march in the town and take everything to see the government buildings with me here was napoleon later rights activist for months on end cell he's come to the strike today the fight in the summer is the message of the strike today and this strike is about the living wage we cannot. allow. the gov. to say. oh do not be where we exploited badly take. the money and so we coming here to fight for them so that they can have a deeply teddy. just like any other profession. in the heart of and still king about them wages twenty one hour which is the next half of the salary of nearly three hundred dollars a month some other unions saying that's enough they saying that's a good start and the south africa's economy can afford to pay because of all the not so what's your message to those other unions who are contradicting the tape today you know those those you know on this commit

neighboring countries estimated at more than three quarters of a million people al-jazeera is malcolm webb is doing the journey of the refugees in reverse he's travelled from uganda's capital kampala to the chiang wali refugee camp where most of them are resettled he then crossed lake albert by boat ending his journey at a semi on the congolese side from where refugees are fleeing the fighting. i'm now standing in the democratic republic of congo and it's up in these hills where since the beginning of this the militia of me in the village is setting hearts on fire and killing people with machetes that's why tens of thousands of fled many of them in camps like this to a very basic conditions are good just plastic sheeting stretched over sticks but lucky people those that can afford the fee have been coming down here to lake albert getting in rickety wooden boats and crossing into neighboring uganda they're picked up by the un refugee agency in uganda government officials and taken to a refugee camp with a couple of hours drive inside uganda we went there and we spoke to some of the new arri

on malcolm webb to reprovision in the democratic republic of congo tens of thousands of people here fled their homes since the beginning of the year the militia attacked their villages to things like this. and then support disgraced cycling champion lance armstrong reaches a multi-million dollar settlement with the u.s. government. police in south africa's northwest province of fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who are staging protests for a third day now the violent unrest has forced president several other poser to cut short a trip from the u.k. the demonstrators seeking jobs better housing roads and hospitals are demanding the resignation of a regional leader with a ques of corruption catherine soy has more from johannesburg. the situation in the northwest is calm but very very tense indeed these protests started on wednesday people are frustrated they're angry about the state of this service delivery they are demanding for better housing the money for jobs and they're also angry about corruption allegations leveled against the leadership they won the premier of the province to st

this year ever just have been at the center of an ethnic conflict let's go to our correspondent malcolm webb now he is live to rise in bosnia in the way provinces malcolm you're and you want an idea i.d.p. camps tell us more about what it is people have run from there. first i should just point out how bad the conditions are here is basically in a way of very simple shelters made of plastic seat on the on a slope of when it rains here of course conditions become very bad we've spoken to some parents here say many of their children have diarrhea people going about one meal a day is not very good at all but they all say they're here because it's better than what they left behind at home at home they fled from extreme violence the militias attack their villages and it's not the first time this community has suffered such extreme violence it's actually not new here in congo ever since belgian colonialists first came here over one hundred years ago they used massacres and mutilation to control the population and these brutal methods remained used in congo is politics ever since. we spoke to a fam

many more have not because they still don't feel safe because they've nothing left to return to malcolm webb al-jazeera it to republicans in the democratic republic of congo. to the head of hair on al-jazeera a warning from the i.m.f. about trade disputes between the u.s. and china and what they could mean for the global economy plus. most of all been a member for. a gym in the u.s. accuses of treating two black men like criminals. for the weather is now largely fine across the middle east though some wet weather there with a wintry weather too over the high ground but not just big area cloud just around the caspian sea joining up with some wet weather that we have around armenia georgia azerbaijan and that's going to be the case as we go on through friday possibly have a little bit of snow over the higher ground cool enough there a warm weather we have across that western side of it for the rest it's cold ankara twelve degrees celsius cloud and rain coming in across turkey filtering its way across northern areas of syria and we're going to see some wetter weather coming back through as a go

end what the union kohls a crisis of unemployment poverty and inequality more now from serious malcolm webb in johannesburg. found in the gun at him on the insistence that sound singing songs and chanting. plenty of the films from the struggle against the market i don't think i think the freedom the one that people with three rule episode the dish go to the office. let me add that is like government of the. free definitely taking the position that it means that the month of may. have been away forever didn't think the price minimum wage just on the three hundred dollars a month the other unions in the government who to greet the people here say. by them not only fail to recognise that and so i don't mind seeing. a weather update thanks to when i was there at then a religious leader in india who said to have millions of followers is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of rape we'll tell you more plus journalists in peril a new report looks at the most dangerous places in the world to cover the news. welcome back weather conditions across much of eastern china fine away from

step down despite passing his term limits and perspire winning elections repeatedly and visitors malcolm webb is retracing the refugees journey from the end to the beginning he has traveled from uganda's capital kampala to the king wali refugee camp where most of them are sheltering right now he's crossing lake albert heading from the landing site on the congolese side where refugees are fleeing the fighting before getting on the water he has this update. i'm standing in uganda this is lake albert and on the far side you can just about see hills in the democratic republic of congo and it's after in those hills in recent months that militia have been attacking villages setting hearts on fire chopping people up with machetes killing some and that's what prompted thousands to get in boats across the lake and you can see some of the kinds of boats here that they've been using these wooden ones have an engine strapped on the back that's a better way to cross but for people who can't afford a ticket in one of those they have to get in a canoe and paddled in which case the crossing can take one or t

hacked to death others burned in their homes it will take a lot to convince people it's safe here malcolm webb al-jazeera through the province in the democratic republic of congo the risk of moment has apologized to thousands of members of the caribbean community who have lived and worked in the u.k. for decades but are now being treated as immigrants fifty thousand people who came from the west indies to britain after the second world war maybe affected phillips reports he came to britain from barbados when he was nine years old more than fifty years ago his father had a job at the post office michael married in britain had children grandchildren worked in education thought he was british until the government told him he didn't have the right documents he lost his job as he fought for the right to stay here if i was deported i don't know what i would to take someone and i could have no no worse because that is what they do. you know it's about work what you know what you could do for you to help britain being a better place than it was a rival of more than four hundred. the so-called women dr

many more have not because they still don't feel safe because they have nothing left to return to malcolm webb al-jazeera it to republicans in the democratic republic of congo certainly as president omar bashir has fired his father mr after he publicly spoke out about the government's failure to pay its diplomats about him gone though said embassy staff had not been paid in months and that saddam had fallen behind in paying rent for many of its diplomatic missions the country is short on foreign currency and is facing an economic crisis that's forced the central back to devalue the sudanese pound twice since january. iraq has launched air strikes against eisel targets in syria the government says it's fighter jets carried out what it calls a deadly raid against in a border area syrian and iraqi forces have driven eisel for most of the territory it once held iraq stepped up its campaign this week to clear the remaining pockets of ice or territory. cuba has a new president after six decades of castroville miguel diaz kyle was sworn in on thursday succeeding eighty six year old castro a latin ame

wait for somebody to help them put up a shelter it might be safer here for their struggles over malcolm webb al-jazeera chiang wali refugee camp in uganda. a facebook founder and chief executive mark zuckerberg has admitted making mistakes during a nearly five hour testimony before the u.s. congress he says he's sorry about the privacy data breach of the social media giant alan fischer reports now from washington. ditching his favorite group t. shirts for a suit this was a polish to facebook c.e.o. with a performance to match mark zuckerberg apologize for the massive data breach that impacted eighty seven million users worldwide we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry but the importance of this appearance was not lost on one senator it should be a wake up call for the tech community we want to hear more without delay about what facebook and other companies plan to do to take greater responsibility for what happens on their platforms the core issue was summed up with one question from democrat dick durbin mr zucke

wait for somebody to help them put up a shelter it might be safer here for their struggle over malcolm webb al-jazeera chiang wali refugee camp you can buy. police in indonesia are cracking down on the illegal alcohol trade after more than one hundred people died in one week alone from drinking bootleg liquor alcohol is legal in the muslim majority country but rising prices and restrictions have caused the surge in black market production often involving dangerous substances. the rate flights between russia and egypt have resumed after a whole to of more than two years russia suspended the right flights the egypt after a passenger jet was blown up over the sinai peninsula in two thousand and fifteen a group affiliated with i saw claimed responsibility for the bomb attack which killed all two hundred twenty four passengers on board was this flight was bound for the capital cairo. a facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has testified in the u.s. congress for a second day about the massive breach of user's private data the thirty three year old billionaire apologized several times and promised to ma

it's clear that many congolese desperately need help chronic poverty makes the crisis much worse malcolm webbal-jazeera to re province in the democratic republic of congo. i report by the united nations children's agency says the armed group boko haram has abducted more than one thousand children in northeast nigeria since twenty thirteen many of the children were taken from school girls in twenty four team more than one hundred of those two hundred seventy six girls are still missing in s.f. says nearly two thousand three hundred teachers have been killed and fourteen hundred schools destroyed by back around me just has more from the future when the report detailed happenings in northeastern nigeria especially between two thousand and thirteen to two thousand and eighteen a period of five years of book quite an operations but we've known long before the chief of those who abducted in two thousand and fourteen of boko haram atrocities involving the kidnap and up duction of young girls and children from their own homes even in may degree we've seen and heard parents talking about fighters who

sixteen and no date has been set for elections which have repeatedly been perspire on al-jazeera as malcolm webb is retracing the journey of the refugees he's travelled from uganda's capital kampala to the chiang wali refugee camp. all of the people here who arrived here in uganda in the last few days having fled violence at home in the democratic republic of congo and all the people that we've spoken to tell similar stories they say militia came to their villages with guns machetes people were hacked to death people had limbs cut off or shot hearts were set on fire so they fled to make the perilous journey here many walked for days on foot and crossed by lake albert in rickety boats overfilled is a strong risk of storms some boats that capsized but those that have made it here say they're glad to be here it's safer than what's going on at home and now they're in this refugee settlement they're waiting for humanitarian workers to give them a few simple islands' to get started they were given a plot of land where the have to make a shelter out of sticks and plastic sheeting start digging the grou

hacked to death others burned in their homes it'll take a lot to convince people it's safe here malcolm webb al jazeera it's early province in the democratic republic of congo. still ahead on al-jazeera and in these assignments basic representatives over at user data breach last. i'm very sorry for any confusion or anxiety that you know i'm doing the wrong as the british government announces a plan to address concerns of some caribbean immigrants. from long flowing on in winds to an enchanting desert breeze you're. always warming up nicely now across western europe there i say taste of the summer coming through actually still a fair amount of cash and it is just spilling in across the british isles but high pressure coming through here so the skies opening up also blue skies and warm sunshine to still a little bit of cloud into central and eastern pos but it's coming from the east will be safe you and far between little line of showers there coming from the balkans easing up into that western side of russia and beyond twenty one celsius in moscow warm enough seventeen celsius there for a lot

crack to death others burned in their homes it will take a lot to convince people it's safe here malcolm webb al-jazeera through a province in the democratic republic of congo still ahead on al-jazeera china's president cast doubt on expectations of pm power for life and canada pulls family members of its embassy staff out of soup over fears of a mystery illness. how low we have the thunderstorms rumbling away across parts of southeast asia rest the usual big ones are just to the west of brunei was seen seventy eight millimeters of rain in twenty four hours that's all making its way further west was see a sickly when strong having those showers across malaysia easily over towards the mill a peninsula and on into a fair amount of cloud of rain just around the gulf of thailand as we go on through wednesday bangkok at thirty three degrees that will continue to push a little further east which as we go on through thursday want to showers coming back in behind us there continuing to across some archer and wanted to heat of the day showers there into into the sea then say java seeing a little bit o

and for the organizers the breakaway federation of unions is the first major test of that power malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. a french believe that has been placed on the formal investigation on suspicion of bribing african officials for lucrative contracts by law re is accused of providing discounted p.r. advice to presidential candidates in guinea and togo in return for port operation licenses his company denies any wrongdoing. or get a weather update next year on al-jazeera then a rare look at village life on one of the world's most heavily guarded borders and we examine whether briggs it could put britain's fishing industry on ice. through tranquil arabian can you. deny. it's in its initial gondola. how i once again we still have some rather live shot was making the way across the middle east and that will be the case over the next couple of days a fair amount of cloud showing up on the satellite picture iran seeing some of that cloudy weather grassi making its way further east was we will see a little more cloud also drifting in behind if the truth benign just aroun

its demanding action to end what the union calls an unemployment poverty and inequality crisis malcolm webb joins us live now from johannesburg welcome one of the key issues here that they want some sort of solution to. the people gathering here john is the rejection of approaches minimum wage of twenty hours that works out at about a salary of just under three hundred dollars a month and that's the minimum wage in the legislation that's two to see the cost on part of the people here say it's nowhere near enough they say the minimum wage needs to be four or five times that amount in the twenty four years after the end of apartheid this is still protecting the kind of inequalities that they fought against much of south africa's industry and big business is still mostly by the white minority directors paid very large salaries the people here say that the lowest paid workers aren't getting nearly enough new president relatively new president is this the beginning of the end of his honeymoon period. well unions and the ruling african national congress and the party in south africa have a long h

many more have not because they still don't feel safe because they have nothing left to return to malcolm webb al jazeera it's a repro vince in the democratic republic of congo. the weather check is coming up next and then out with the old town hall is trying to clear the air and its roads also washingtonians inflamed by high prices gather for what's being called the march of the candle stick stay with us here on al-jazeera. hello again full stop by look at the weather across northeastern parts of asia we've got fine conditions across japan at the moment there is a weather front though across the northeastern parts of china into the far east of russia and that's going to give some brace of rain along that line but otherwise the most part weather conditions looking fine mid twenty's across much of japan fine and summer's all conditions across the korean peninsula beijing though seeing a big drop in temperatures from the low thirty's the low twenty's as we head through saturday is that front begins to push in and then as it clears during the course of sunday then the cold air comes in behind but

many more have not because they still don't feel safe because they have nothing left to return to malcolm webb al jazeera it to republicans in the democratic republic of congo. bryden is a conflict and humanitarian advocacy adviser for save the children in the united kingdom joins me now from the british capital good to have you with us on al-jazeera conflict brings misery and children are often the first victims i mean your report or the report certainly leads for agreement from save the children when we're talking about their escape from a conflict region yeah very much so so in terms of figures and numbers since april twelfth last week there's been seventy three and a half thousand congolese refugees fleeing from the d.s.e. into uganda since the beginning of the year what we have found is that over half of these the next sixty percent children and we have had teams on the ground in uganda who are receiving these children and hearing some really harrowing stories of accounts what sort of programs do you have in place on the ground when it comes to trying to help these people that are escapin

december alone seventy thousand have fled fighting in the east to camps in the brain uganda what malcolm webb has retrace the refugees journey now he's travelled from uganda's capital kampala to the ching wali camp where most of the refugees as resettled he then headed to kiss any land site on the shore of lake albert in the d.r. sea and this is where many refugees take boats to escape to uganda and finally he visits one year and a couple of people who fled the fighting well malcolm actually joins us now from borneo and it's a grim site is it not. right conditions here really aren't very good at all there are a few thousand people living in a few hundred shelters made of plastic sheets stretched over frames made of sticks it's been raining a lot today in the the ground inside these shelters is just bare earth you can imagine the impact on the quality of life here when the heavy downpour of rain and also on people's health been speaking some of the community leaders say many of the children have diarrhea that's just one of the many problems that it's all come out but they're only living here b

many more have not because they still don't feel safe because they have nothing left to return to malcolm webb al-jazeera it tory province in the democratic republic of congo. indonesian fishermen have rescued a boat load of a hinge of muslim refugees thousands of kilometers from their homeland the group of about one hundred was brought to shore in the chip province it's not clear how long they'd been at sea but they were reportedly weak and moen nourished about seven hundred thousand ranger fled me and most rakhine state mainly by land since the military crackdown started all this heavy rain has flooded refugee camps in bangladesh where hundreds of thousands of ranger are sheltering daphne cook from save the children says work is continuing to ensure the refugees are kept dry and safe. so we've just started what is the crazy monsoon period here in cups is bizarre so that means we've had a downpour of rain because today i've been here for five months this was the first down four of rain i've seen since december and it immediately quoi just minor flooding in the cans and mighty passageways to s

see for camps in neighboring uganda where malcolm webb has we traced the refugees journey says travelled from uganda's capital kampala to the chiang walid camp on the shore of lake albert where most of the refugees have resettled event costly to consented landing site on the sea side of the war this is where many refugees take pools to escape to uganda and finally he continued to nia to a camp for internally displaced people. it's taken days for cooma corinne and her children to get from her village in the democratic republic of congo to the safety of this refugee camp in uganda with two year old patrice. anti septic's praise just too much. life in the camp begins with frank scenes in a medical check. fled her village after her brother in law was killed by a militia with machetes. husband his father was left behind i did. when the fighting started we were thierry skitt other people ran away but my husband wasn't around so i waited after everyone leafed i was alone so then i decided to run. as among thousands who fled to uganda since the beginning of this year most of them arrived here by

wait for somebody to help them put up shelter it might be safer here for their struggles over malcolm webb al jazeera chang wali refugee camp you can buy as half a sporty as far. thanks very much romo has staged a remarkable comeback to barcelona added the champions league the italians trailed four one from the first leg of their quarter final but won three nil at home to progress on away goals it's just the second time that roma have reached the semifinals and they're only the third side in champions league history to overturn a three goal deficit in the knockout stages it was more clear cut in manchester were liverpool went through five one on aggregates against man city most fell and became the reds all time leading goalscorer in the champions league with his eighth strike in their two one win so liverpool are off to the semifinals for the first time in a decade earlier in their team boss safely arrived in manchester there had been fears of violence after city's boss was targeted before the first leg event as it will take heart from rome with performance heading into the second leg of t

many more have not because they still don't feel safe because they have nothing left to return to malcolm webb al jazeera it's eerie province in the democratic republic of congo. says in zimbabwe have been protesting against the sacking of sixteen thousand of their colleagues who've gone on strike on hundreds of workers took part in the peaceful demonstration they kept in the capital harare earlier this week thousands of nurses walked out of a poor conditions and unpaid allowances many were late to find it so had to the shutdown of major public hospitals we can we can ignore ready struggling health sector right now those system that's been clipboards is how the system that services the poor the prop outs of the kind the kind that for private key this is the only kid they get to do to make kids right they deserve to gets in the school that i'm sending my children is that the school that they're supposed to to gorge to is a mess i speak to send a child to a school but if they just go to it to be a school board we can may say larry. but lisa nicaragua say three people have been killed in protests

and for the organizers to break away federation of unions is the first task of that power malcolm webb al-jazeera to have as burke south africa dozens of migrants to capture the attention and anger of the u.s. presidents with journey through central america i began arriving at the us mexico border jumpers all that officials to repel them joins me now from tirana so what are they saying she was special about the conditions that they've been living in well. well round one hundred twenty have arrived and what you see behind me is another approximately sixty three individuals asylum seekers that arrived here in tijuana only a short distance from the us mexico border most of them are from central american countries like. most of them are however from honduras these are asylum seekers you can really see it in their faces that long arduous journey that they've been through you can see how hungry they are and the tiredness in their eyes many of them are here with very little to no money a lot of women single mothers with their children who have made it all the way from central america across m

december alone seventy thousand have fled fighting in the east it comes in neighboring uganda where malcolm webb has retrace the refugees journey he's travelled from uganda's capital kampala to the chiang wali camp where almost most of the refugees as we settled here they had to send a landside on the shore of lake albert in the d.r. see this is where many refugees take boats to escape to uganda and find he visits bunia at a camp for people who fled the fighting. well that's exactly it is now in the code to join us from there is a grim site is it not welcome that's right it's not very good at all there can consist of hundreds of very simple structures on the muddy slope structures made of a plastic sheet stretched over simple frame made of sticks it's been raining quite a lot today and inside each of these shelters is just bare earth on the floor so you can imagine what rain falls on the conditions of the people here sanitation is not good at the best of time we are speaking to some of the community leaders just a short while ago complaining a lot of the children have diarrhea some of them a vom

chronic poverty makes the crisis much worse malcolm webb al-jazeera you to reprove and in a democratic republic of congo we have much more to come on this news hour including james sophie unification we speak to koreans living close to the border added by highly anticipated meeting between the north and the south. lazies government considers giving special status to a syrian refugee has been stuck at kuala lumpur airport for more than a month and formula one world champion lewis hamilton sets the pace ahead of the chinese concrete but only just these houses for picture. quality the weather still remains unusually disturbed across parts of the middle east areas of cloud spilling else of syria iraq pushing across iran and that's producing some rather live fish i was from time to time fifty to seventy millimeters of rain coming out of some of these actually thirty celsius there in baghdad eastern parts of iraq will see some cloud and right some very heavy rain into western areas of iran is nothing a little further north was up towards the caspian to see if you shall is just around maybe a

malcolm webb is retracing the journey of the refugees he's travelled from uganda's capital kampala to the china refugee camp. all of the people here who arrived here in uganda in the last few days having fled violence at home in the democratic republic of congo and all the people that we've spoken to tell similar stories they say militia came to their villages with guns machetes people were hacked to death people had limbs cut off were shot hearts were set on fire so they fled to make the perilous journey here many walked for days on foot and crossed by lake albert in rickety boats overfilled the strong risk of storms some boats that capsized but those that made it here say they're glad to be here it's safer than what's going on at home and now they're in this refugee settlement they're waiting for humanitarian workers to give them a few simple ice and to get started they were given a plot of land where the have to make a shelter out of sticks and plastic sheeting start digging the ground so they can start to produce their own food now we're living like that for months until they can

crisis of unemployment poverty and inequality that's good life not to have his book on sirius malcolm webb is the how widely supported has this the strike today been malcolm. we're in johannesburg they pulled a big crowd many thousands of strikers of marched through the city delivered their petition to the premier's office now for the provincial governor and also to the offices of two other government departments that presented their demands and all the business is down there are closed almost all the closed today so that's because they are quite some effect their key demand is a rejection of the minimum wage that the government's proposed which would amount to a salary of just under three hundred dollars a month the government agreed to see some of south africa's major historical unions the people here don't agree they say it's not acceptable they say it needs to be four or five times higher than that not the reason they called for the strike today south africa's new president but malcolm is only just getting to grips with beginning to get to grips with the country's economic problems are

wait for somebody to help them put up shelter it might be safer here for their struggles over malcolm webb al-jazeera chiang wali refugee camp you can bet plenty more ahead here all the al-jazeera news are including facebook both small business to do better while being grilled about privacy failures and. confirmation from israel it's all just we're caught on camera celebrating after shooting a palestinian man. and one of europe's most successful football teams has a night to remember in the champions league peter will be here with the details in sport. mirrors army has sentenced seven soldiers to ten years each for their involvement in the killing of ten men during a military crackdown on revenge of muslims now the military says the soldiers joined police and buddhist villagers in the killings in rakhine state last september near mars army has been accused of carrying out ethnic cleansing meanwhile a court in me and maher has refused to drop a case against two reuters journalists accused of obtaining secret government papers on the crackdown while alone and choice who addresses arrested in